Intelligence officials on Tuesday countered President-elect Donald Trump's assertion that a scheduled briefing on Russian interference in the 2016 election was postponed.

Trump, who has repeatedly expressed a lack of confidence in the U.S. intelligence community, tweeted that the meeting was delayed and used quotation marks around the word "intelligence."

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"Perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange," he wrote.

A U.S. official told The Associated Press there has been no delay in plans to brief Trump and said intelligence officials were baffled by his statement.

While ringing in 2017 at his Mar-a-Lago bash, Trump pledged to divulge previously unreported information that only he knew about a series of hacks targeting the Democratic Party. That revelation would come out on either Tuesday or Wednesday, he said.